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Quote #1:   "Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations."
Quote #2:   "How often misused words generate misleading thoughts."
Quote #3:   "Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
Quote #4:   "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
Quote #5:   "If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making"
Quote #6:   "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
Quote #7:   "Education has for its object the formation of character."
Quote #8:   "Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."